…taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier. Social subjects, classified by their classifications, distinguish themselves by the distinctions they make, between the beautiful and the ugly, the distinguished and the vulgar, in which their position in the objective classifications is expressed of betrayed…art and culture consumption are predisposed, consciously and deliberately or not, to fulfil a social function of legitimizing social differences’ and thus contribute to the process of social reproduction.
Distinction - Pierre Bourdieu

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